30 minutes of attacks in Baghdad leave 64 dead and more than 280 wounded

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?col=§ion=focusoniraq&xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/September/focusoniraq_September5.xml

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rescue crews pulled bodies from the rubble of bombed buildings Friday after a barrage of coordinated attacks across eastern Baghdad neighborhoods killed at least 64 people and wounded more than 280 within half an hour, police said.

The latest spasm of violence on Thursday evening _ which included explosives planted in apartments, car bombs and several rocket and mortar attacks on mainly Shia neighborhoods _ came even as Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki said Iraqi forces should have control over most of the country by year’s end.

The toll from the Baghdad bombings increased to 64 people dead and 286 wounded as more bodies were recovered, police Capt. Mohammed Abdul-Ghani said Friday morning.

The attacks _ centered on neighborhoods controlled by Shia militias, some of which Sunni Arabs accuse of running death squads _ brought Thursday’s death toll across the country to at least 85.

Attackers rented apartments and shops in buildings a few days ago and planted explosives in them, detonating them by remote control almost simultaneously Thursday evening, Maj. Gen. Jihad Liaabi, director of the Interior Ministry’s counterterrorism unit, told state television late Thursday night.

[Ron Green]

1. Freedom is on the march!

Why do you hate America?

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. Wow! Can you imagine trying to live with that day in and day

out.

Those poor people.

[nancyr]

3. Final throes of the insurgency!

[Philosoraptor]

4. yes, all is well

and iraq is safer with saddam behind bars

[Avalux]

5. This is exactly the kind of stuff that makes Rummie mad.

Why do the news services insist on reporting this? All they ever do is report the bad stuff going on in Iraq, never the good stuff. :sarcasm:

[warrens]

6. It's going SWIMMINGLY

Right Coulter, you stupid piece of shit?

[orwell]

7. We need a re-write.

This is just another example of the "liberal-biased bad news" that can only pollute our young impressionable minds with fact-based reality. Where are the heroic cheerleader journalists when we need them?

Send this down the memory hole comrade!

What's on HGTV?

I feel so much better now...

[Justice Is Comin]

8. Yeah almost any day now they might start serious killing.

I got an idea, maybe you defense department techies over there could figure out how to strap bush to a icbm and send him to Pluto.